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It's pretty much an open secret that under the presidency of Pervez Musharraf, the ISI was funding and training the Taliban while at the same time Musharraf was claiming to be squarely behind the Americans in the war on terror. The guy was an absolute snake in the grass and it's only the fact that Pakistan has nuclear weapons that has prevented the US form targeting them before now IMO.

I'm sadly not going tomorrow but I'm really looking forward to following the match. In years gone by I would be bricking it about going away to a relegation-threatened side, but for the first time in my Saints-supporting life I am 100% confident that the lads will go out and do a professional job and do what is necessary to get the three points. Really looking forward to celebrating promotion tomorrow. I don't think my nerves can take going to the final day to determine if we go up automatically or have to face the potential nightmare of the playoffs.

Fecking superb Brighton! If it stays like this we only need one more point from our last two games.

Football clubs have to pay for policing at games out of their own funds. The House of Windsor PLC is already obscenely rich thanks to the amount of public money they have received over the years. Why could they not pay for the security themselves? It's pocket change to them.

I don't think the penguin population of Antarctica were too bothered about it.

Well, I've been feeling a little under the weather the last few days so I would have liked to have spent the day kicking back on the sofa and watching the snooker. But unfortunately my girlfriend has been completely suckered in by the hysteria surrounding this wedding and had the BBC coverage on the telly for over 7 hours, which kind of put a crimp in my relaxation plans. But you know what Sergei? You can keep your street parties and your bunting and your cheap, crap Wills & Kate memorabilia. I'm all for celebrating a good wedding, but usually I reserve it for marriages involving people I actually give a damn about, rather than some aristocrats who don't live in the same version of reality as the rest of us.

So your sarcastic comment was designed to warn against getting rid of the monarchy in case we went through a period of seventy years of murder, imprisonment and oppression; because that's what happened a century ago when the Russians overthrew their aristocracy. Like I said, why is that a good justification for keeping the monarchy?

Sorry, I didn't really have time to summarise the entire history of the USSR. What exactly was the comparison you were trying to make?

Couldn't have put it better myself Badger. What we witnessed today was a f***ing grotesque insult to the 'age of austerity' we are living in. If the amount of public money spent on security etc.. for today could have been used to save one public sector job or prevented a single Sure Start childrens centre from closing then the public who support it should be ashamed of themselves. Yes the royals are a quaint reminder of our glorious (?) past but IMO they have absolutely no place in a modern, supposedly democratic society and they should be condemned to the pages of the history from which their pompousness descends.

So you think the failed communist experiment in Russia is a good justification for maintaining the monarchy?

Weren't the Typhoons assembled in Bristol? Or was it just the engines?

Good to see him keeping up his reputation for inappropriate fancy dress, although he might have over-stepped the mark by coming as Colonel Gaddafi.

Rickie bigs up the defence

That's either a reflection of the incredible power of propaganda, or the incredible level of stupidity among Americans; or both. Either way, it's scary.

But you'll be there cheering on our future king and celebrating your Britishness though, won't you?

Now why doesn't that surprise me I wonder. I was watching the news earlier and they showed loads of people lining The Mall draped in Union flags getting ready for the royal wedding tomorrow. Was one of them you by any chance dune?

It may be four years to the day today, but surely we should celebrate the anniversary tomorrow, being friday and all.

Surprised it hasn't been taken down already TBH!

It wasn't all hot air. I was a mod on this site at the time and was privvy to certain information, and I have it on good authority that the board of SLH did indeed meet to talk terms with representatives of Paul Allen, though he was never directly involved personally. I assume this was so that he could deny any interest whatsoever if/when it all fell through.

That's one. Two more and we're over the line. Don't know if my nerves can take it though because you can bet that Hudds will push us all the way, and if Brighton defend like they did today against Hudds next week then you wouldn't bet against them winning.

WOOOOOOT FOR DAGGERS!!!!!!

Fantastic. That's given us a fair bit of breathing space. Could do with Daggers getting a goal to ease the pressure but we're keeping our side of the bargain and that's all that counts right now.

B0llox. It was my nun what done it!

Well, we've just got to keep chipping away. And if that doesn't work, maybe we should drive the bus through their defence.